comely

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome.

   “a comely woman”

2. sıfat Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper.

   “I neuer tempted her vvith vvord too large, / But as a brother to his ſiſter, ſhevved / Baſhfull ſinceritie, and comelie loue.”

3. sıfat Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine.

   “In ſhootinge at the prickes, haſtye and quicke drawinge is neyther ſure nor yet comely.”

4. sıfat Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice, pleasant.

   “Oh hovv comely it is and hovv reviving / To the Spirits of juſt men long oppreſt! / VVhen God into the hands of thir deliverer / Puts invincible might”

5. fiil To embellish or grace (something).

   “One diligent seruiture, skilfull to waight, / more comelieth thy table than other some eight, / That stand for to listen, or gasing about, / not minding their dutie, within nor without.”

6. zarf Synonym of comelily (“in a comely manner: in an attractive or pleasing manner; in a manner which meets accepted moral or social norms”).

   “So ſlides he dovvne vppon his greyned bat [i.e., a walking stick]; / And comely diſtant ſits he by her ſide, […]”